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Article: CITIZEN KANE A MASTERPIECE AT 50
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 28, 1991
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Fifty years ago this year, Orson Welles had made what would
eventually become known as the greatest movie of all time. But he
was having trouble getting it released.
"Citizen Kane" told the story of an aging press tycoon whose
arrogance had alienated him from everyone who loved him, and who had
died alone inside the vast gothic pile of his lonely castle in
Florida. To many observers, Charles Foster Kane bore an uncanny
resemblance to William Randolph Hearst, the aging press tycoon who
lived in San Simeon, his famous California castle. And to Hearst's
underlings, "Citizen Kane" was so unflattering to their boss that